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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Horowitz, Daniel, 1938- Vance Packard & American social criticism. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1994 (OCoLC)654473993 |
Named Person: | Vance Packard; Vance Packard; Vance Packard; Vance Oakley Packard; Vance Packard; Vance Oakley Packard |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Daniel Horowitz |
ISBN: | 0807821411 9780807821411 9780807857359 0807857351 |
OCLC Number: | 28889586 |
Notes: | Title on half t.p.: Vance Packard and American social criticism. |
Description: | xviii, 375 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | 1. Growing up absurd: From Granville Summit to State College, 1914-1932 -- 2. Starting out in the thirties: Penn State, 1932-1936 -- 3. White collar: Columbia graduate school of journalism, Boston Daily Record, and Associated Press, 1936-1942 -- 4. The man in the gray flannel suit: Darien, New Canaan and American Magazine, 1942-1956 -- 5. The medium is the message: American magazine, 1942-1956 -- 6. Making it: three best-sellers, 1957-1960 -- 7. Marginal man: the emergence of an American social critic. 8. The lonely crowd: readers respond to The Hidden Persuaders, The Status seekers, and The Waste makers -- 9. The crack in the picture window: the response of critics to the trilogy -- 10. A station wagon driver in the suburb: Moralism and its contradictions -- 11. Future shock, 1960-1968: The Pyramid climbers, The Naked society, and The Sexual wilderness -- 12. The cultural contradictions of capitalism, 1969-1984: A Nation of strangers, The People shapers, and Our Endangered children. -- 13. Barbarians at the gate, 1984-1989: The Ultra Rich. |
Other Titles: | Vance Packard and American social criticism. |
Responsibility: | Daniel Horowitz. |
Abstract:
Vance Packard's bestselling books taught the generation that came of age in the early 1960s about the dangers posed by advertising, social climbing, and planned obsolescence. Based in part on interviews with Packard, Daniel Horowitz's intellectual biography focuses on the period during which Packard left magazine writing to author his most famous works of social criticism.
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